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These explain how to use primary and integrative studies.
An article on the CEBM's website, providing an overview of the subject.
Listing of quality reviewed documents from the Internet, aimed at primary care providers. Produced by the Allegheny University of Health Sciences in the USA. Also contains a primary care internet guide which has links to relevant journals.
Site set up by the NHS Executive in North Thames to report on a series of of ongoing research programmes examining the interface between primary and secondary care.
for EBM including scenarios and a self-contained, seven-session course in Practicing EBM for Clinicians. From the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford
A Web-based course that introduces the basic concepts of evidence-based medicine, information mastery, and critical appraisal of the medical literature. From Michigan University.
An online textbook from the Medical University of South Carolina Introduction to Clinical Reasoning.
Gives details of ongoing clinical trials in the USA. Aimed at health professionals and patients. Centerwatch is a publishing company in Boston.
An overview of EBM, Anatomy of a Question, an example relating to Therapy, resources for literature searching, and worksheets.
ScHARR's Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet provides an extensive list of EBM resources on the 'net.
Includes: Purposes of Evidence Based Medicine, A Guide to Research Methods, Searching Biomedical Databases, Applying EBM to Online Searching, Evaluating the Studies You Find, and a Glossary of Terms.
This tutorial will acquaint you with the concept of Evidence Based Medicine and help you to develop MEDLINE search strategies to locate reports of research in the medical literature which use evidence-based principles. Navigate through the tutorial by clicking the blue 'play' arrow buttons. From Thomas Jefferson
The online Evidence-Based Health Care Journal.
Peer-reviewed critical analyses of clinical trials pertinent to pediatric critical care medicine.
Some issues available online.
A discussion list for teachers and practitioners in health related fields; to announce meetings and courses; stimulate discussion; air controversies and aid the implementation of EBH.
This interactive web guide will allow you to: Proceed step-by-step through an EBM approach to a medical question; based on your responses, provide a general interpretation of the evidence; enter the findings and calculate the 'core numbers' used in EBM; learn the basics of EBM through explanations and 'help links.' From the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
A collection of tools for identifying, assessing and applying relevant evidence.
has a number of interactive guides to EBM procedures and also a
Glossary of Terms.
from the Oxford CEBM.
From the Medical University of South Carolina's Introduction to Clinical Reasoning.
An assortment of materials from the Oxford CEBM which are very useful for practitioners of EBM.
Includes:
Permits calculation of sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, etc. From the Medical College of Wisconsin.
From the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia.
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